Ukrainian Genealogy Group National Capital Region The Ukrainian Genealogist September 2005 913 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E3 Website: www.geocities.com/uggncr/ eMail: [email protected] Events Calendar at: http://calendar.yahoo.ca/uggncr Contact: Myron Momryk (613) 731-1870 Editor: Mike Dowhan (613) 521-3449

September 27, 2005 Meeting Orest has been researching the activities of V. Avramenko for several years and has prepared a Welcome back to the Fall meetings of the manuscript for publication. Ukrainian Genealogy Group - National Capital Tentative plans are being made for the Region. A few new members have joined us and November meeting. It may be possible to obtain there were a number of inquiries regarding a video from the University of on an Ukrainian family history from members and ongoing project to interview members of the from the public during the summer . Ukrainian pioneer communities in north-central The September meeting is an introductory Alberta. meeting and we will review the resources Suggestions for research topics, speakers and available in the Ottawa area for research in presentations are always welcome.. Ukrainian family history. The Annual Reports for 2001-2003 and 2004-2005 will be available. Also, we will discuss the 1911 census which Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group was made available over the summer and some (TUGG) site of the problems regarding the use of this The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group information. (TUGG) site is finally up and running. The site To access this database, enter is http://www.torugg.org/. It is still under http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ construction and some of the links may not be Click on “Archivianet:Search Archival operational. The home page features a rousing Materials”. The link to “Census of Canada, rendition of the Ukrainian National Anthem. 1911” will be found under the List of Research Make sure your speaker is on and at a good Tools. volume. You may want to check out the AResearching Your Roots@ button on the The next meeting will be held on October 25, Navigation Bar on the left side of the pages. 2005 and this will be a joint meeting with the This page shows one how to conduct a Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business genealogy search from scratch. The ATUGG Association. The speaker will be Orest Links@ carries a large number of related links Martynovych from Winnipeg. He will make a and is organized into categories. presentation of the life and career of Vasile Avramenko who introduced Ukrainian dance in The site has a lot of material on it and will grow Canada and the United States in the late 1920's. with input. The purpose is not only to inform about TUGG’s events, but to provide all people Inspired by my grandfather, I am attempting to interested in Ukrainian and Polish genealogy answer Mr. Burianyk's question. I have been tips on how to carry out research. researching for two years now, and have Input and recommendations are always collected over three thousand names of men welcome. from Ukrainian regions of what was then Russia, who enlisted in Canada and served in the Great War. Alberta Homestead Index Online Are you a descendant of one of these veterans? I believe the stories that can be told about these Various resource materials can be found at the soldiers is very interesting, and I want to learn link: http://abgensoc.ca/ from the Alberta more about their lives. I'm interested in military Genealogical Society. Search names can be records, photos, letters, ephemera, and extracted from 486 of 685 films. experiences. The tale has been told of the Happy 100th Birthday Alberta Ukrainians forced into internment camps. Now it is time to talk about the men who fought for Archives Of Ontario Canada.

New Year of Ontario Vital Statistics Available. You may contact me at: Indexes and registrations for 1908 births, 1923 • [email protected], marriages, and 1933 deaths are now available on • phone (daytime) 604-598-4077, microfilm. • (evening) 604-952-0878. These records are available for consultation in the Main Reading Room of the Archives of Yours truly, Ontario in Toronto. They may also be: Peter Broznitsky

• borrowed through the Microfilm Interloan Service: State Archives in Lviv Closed to Investigate http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interl Theft oan/index.html, The Central State Historical Archives of • consulted at a Family History Centre in Lviv has been closed to investigate evidence http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/gene that documents and archival records have been al/fmlyhist.htm, or stolen and sold at European antique markets, shops and even through Internet auctions. • purchased from the Ontario Genealogical Society The State Committee on Archives of Ukraine http://www.ogs.on.ca./ stated that it is likely that in Spring/Summer 2004 a large-scale theft of documents of 16th- 20th centuries was committed at the L'viv Author looking for descendant of WWI archives. Similar documents from this archives Ukrainian veterans of Canadian Army were confiscated by Polish authorities from a numismatic shop in Gdansk in 2004. From: Peter Broznitsky In another case, in July 2004, the National [email protected] Museum of History of Ukraine was presented with some letters on behalf of the Prime William Burianyk first posed a question in 1960: Minister of Ukraine. It turned out to be archival what role was played by Ukrainians in the material stolen from the Central State Historical Canadian Army during the First World War? Archive of Ukraine in L’viv.

Scultetus I have also traced back my ancestry to 1784 to the Cicila family in the neighbouring village of (Submitted by Alexandra Opar) Malastow. Malastow is first mentioned in Polish records of 1440 when it was granted the The term that I have found in the birth records of Magdeburg Law by the Giebultowski family. my Lemko village is scultetus (Latin). I have The Cicilas were scultetus in Malastow. come across this term in two books so far, one as it pertains to a village and second as it pertains Even further back, I have traced my ancestry in to a medieval urban town. 1784 to the Jurkowski family in the nearby village of Rychwald. The Jurkowskis were The following explanation of scultetus comes scultetus in Rychwald. Rychwald (Reich Wald) from Rosemary A. Chorzempa's book “Korzenie was founded by German immigrants in the Polskie Polish Roots” (pgs. 96-97). This book is 1200s. available in the Reference section of the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Here is the Even though I cannot go back directly on my relevant paragraph: family tree to these earlier dates, I think I can safely pinpoint some of my ancestral families to A lord who wished to form a new village certain villages at certain pre-1784 times. (sometimes called Nowa Wies = New Village) The second citation of the title scultetus comes would issue a “Charter of Location” to a man from the book Microcosm: Portrait of a Central who would recruit settlers, often foreigners and European City by Norman Davies, available at usually Germans to practice their trades and the Main branch of the OPL. This book traces crafts in the new village. This agent (scultetus in the history of the city of Wroclaw in present-day Latin, scultheiss in German, solty or wojt in SW Poland. Polish) would oversee the layout and planning of the new village, was granted land outside the The town of Sroda (Newmarkt) [near Wroclaw village and took charge of the administrative in present-day Western Poland] took its law not duties once the village was established. The directly from Magdeburg but from Halle, which office of scultetus was hereditary thereafter, and had developed its own variant of the Magdeburg can even be seen in 19th century records as an code. Sroda's contacts with Halle went back to occupation or status. 1210 and its incorporation appears to have been completed before 1223. The Law of Newmarkt By flipping through the birth records of my envisaged only limited municipal autonomy village Petna, I noticed that some fathers had where authority was exercised either by a this term written as their status right after their scultetus (schultheiss/soltys) or by a hereditary names. Only certain families were designated as advocatus (vogt/wojt) and by their scultetus and this term was inherited by their accompanying bench of magistrates. It was children. suited to small settlements and was consequently adopted by more than 500 localities both urban In 1785 my village of Petna had 451 inhabitants and rural, throughout medieval Poland. on 14.55 sq km and 5 or 6 scultetus families. I have been able to trace back my ancestry in Wroclaw was prevented from developing the 1784 to 3 of these families (Hliwa, Semanicki, full-blown institutions of municipal authority for Wolny). Petna is first mentioned in Polish several decades. The City Council, which records of 1581. In that year Petna was a newly appeared in the 1260s, did not initially enjoy settled village. This would mean these specific plenary powers. But, in 1326, it bought out the three families of mine were in this village in rights of the hereditary advocate (schertilzan) for 1581. the modest sum of 40 marks. Thereafter the city's executive and legislative functions including those of the advocate, were gradually 2005. Pp. 518. This novel deals with a Ukrainian taken over by the merchant-elected City Council Canadian family and is inspired by the author’s (Rat/Rada) and, with some delay, by a mayor background growing up in the Smoky Lake area chosen by the council. of Alberta, fictionally renamed Shady Hollow.

I have come across other titles both in Petna's Also worth noting is an article that appeared in birth records and Petna's 1787 land cadastre the 1 July 2005 issue of Maclean’s magazine by records. Terms such as advocatus, judex, wojt, the former Premier of , Roy przysiegli, iuratus which do not seem to be Romanow. Titled “Rich in Diversity”, the hereditary. I am collecting explanations of these excellently-written piece has the following terms as I go along. descriptive subtitle: Roy Romanow reflects on growing up in a Saskatchewan family of Questions asked in 1911 census immigrants, who, like many seeking a future in The following website has a list of the questions Canada, spoke neither official language. asked in the 1911, 1921, 1931,1941, and 1951 censuses. Photographs of Villages in Ukraine http://www.canada.uottawa.ca/ccri/resources /year1911.htm http://www.village.sk/index.php

They apparently will go and take pictures of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in your ancestral village. Under the references link Montreal there is a list of 23 villages in Ukraine they have Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal photographed. Anyone have any info/experience has a great online cemetery database that is with this firm? searchable: 1. Bohdanivka2. Bukovynka3. Caslivci4. http://www.cimetierenddn.org/en/services/ Czumalovo5. Dolina6. Drahovo7. Dravci8. necrologie/recherche.asp Chyrovytsi9. Khudlove10. Komorovyczi11. In 2001, it was the third largest cemetery in Kopychinci12. Korytnyany13. Kurdivanivka14. North America. There are many Ukrainian Kuzmyno15. Mala Kopanya16. Mykulivtsi17. names in this database. Novi Petlykivci18. Oryszkivci19. Packanovo20. Seredne21. Sjanki22. Volosjanka23. Zalizsci Information from “Field Notes From Ukrainian Canada”, Volume 1, Number 3, Chair of Ukrainian Studies (Summer, 2005) September 29 - October 1, 2005: The First Two recent titles now available in print: Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, at the Chair Gerus, Oleh, and Denis Hlynka (eds.), Hlynka: of Ukrainian Studies. University of Ottawa The Honourable Member for Vegreville. The campus. Memoirs and Diary of Anthony Hlynka, M.P. Calgary: Press, 2005. Pp. The Seminar will feature ten papers by 388. This book is an invaluable source of discussants from Canada, the United States, the documents and information about the federal United Kingdom and Ukraine, as well as a Member of Parliament and Ukrainian special panel on regionalism in Ukraine, from community spokesman during the late 1930s and the disciplines of political science, anthropology, 1940s. sociology and geography. The Seminar will be open to the public. Contact: Yulia Yarotska, Warring, Molly Anne, Paradise Acres: The Seminar Coordinator, at [email protected] . Stryker Family Saga. Ottawa: Borealis Press,

East European Genealogist (mtDNA), which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal We received two issues of the East European line. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences Genealogist: from all over the world, Sykes found that they

clustered around a handful of distinct groups. Volume 13, Number 2 (Winter, 2004). In this issue, there are the following articles Among Europeans, there are, in fact, only seven. o “Beginners Guide to German Research” Almost all people of native European descent, o “Canada’s Kashubs”. wherever they may live throughout the world,

can trace their ancestry back to one of the seven Volume 13, Number 3 (Spring, 2005). In this women, hence, the Seven Daughters of Eve. issue are the following articles: Naming them Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, o An Overview of the Cadastral Surveys Tara, Katrine and Jasmine, Sykes determined in the Austrian Empire that the seven European clan mothers lived at o Cadastral Land Surveys and Maps for different times from 45,000 years ago for the , Austria oldest to only 10,000 years ago for the youngest. Six feature articles regarding the cadastral map and record holdings in the Central State Indeed, six of the seven clan mothers lived well Historical Archives in Lviv, Lviv Oblast State before agriculture spread into . Devoting Archives and the State Archives in Katowice a chapter to each clan mother, their worlds are (Cieszyn and Zywiec branches),Krakow and brought to life, pinpointing where they lived and Przemysl. how. Ancestral reading of the ancient kind.

These issues are available in our library. Everything is Illuminated

submitted by Alexandra Opar Stolen Children (From the Globe and Mail, August 20, 2005) Our members may be interested in a movie that During the Second World War, Nazis stole will be playing at the Bytowne Cinema Oct.21- thousands of aryan looking children from 27. The movie is "Everything is Illuminated" Russia, Ukraine and Baltics, as part of their based on a bestselling book by the same name. Lebensborn germanization programme, to place with German families. The book is a complex novel, containing numerous historical passages, about a neurotic In 1946, due to the Cold War, they were American Jew who, while searching for his prevented from returning to their original Jewish roots in Ukraine, travels through Ukraine families, and were resettled in Canada. A British with a Ukrainian interpreter and guide. The TV documentary company is searching for any historical passages were removed and fantasy of these individuals today. Please email Jo: sequences added to create a trim, stylish movie [email protected] script. The result is a road-trip movie and apparently a really fun ride. The wildly Review by Alexandra Opar of the book "The extroverted interpreter and guide Alex is played Seven Daughters of Eve" by Brian Sykes. by Ukrainian Gypsy punk rock musician Eugene Hutz. This book is available at the Ottawa Public Library (599.935S983). For more information see the September/October issue of the Bytowne In "The Seven Daughters of Eve" the author Cinema Film Guide newspaper. gives a first-hand account of his research into a Bytowne Cinema, 325 Rideau St. remarkable gene, the mitochondrial DNA gene http://www.bytowne.ca/

UGG-NCR Library (Update)

We’ve recently added some new material to our UGG-NCR Resource Library and have updated our overall catalogue which appears on our Website. To access this catalogue from our UGG-NCR Home Page, look for the link for “UGG-NCR Resource Center Holdings”. Or you access the Library Resource page directly via the following link:

http://www.geocities.com/uggncr/resource.html

As before, all attendees are welcome to browse through the material found in the open cabinet during the meetings and to return them before the end of the evening.

However for anyone wishing to borrow material for the upcoming month, please see either Mike, Bud, or Myron .. who will record the loan in a sign-out sheet that will be hanging on the inside of the cabinet door. Each of our holdings should now have a “UGG-NCR LIBRARY” label with a unique reference number – usually on the front cover, or just inside the 1st or 2nd page. Use this reference number to find the requested item on the signout sheet – and then provide the required signout information (i.e. name, telephone #, date borrowed). This way we will have a record of who has borrowed which item and when. We ask that items only be borrowed for a month at a time.

For anyone who has previously borrowed materials and still have them in their possession, we would kindly ask that you bring them back to us as soon as possible.